Nutrition research Fat can make us slim

Low-fat products do not help against the mass phenomenon of obesity. This is what British scientists of the "National Obesity Forum" and the "Public Health Collaboration" (PHC) say. The PHC calls for consuming saturated fats, avoiding sugar, and stopping counting calories to prevent and reduce Diabetes 2. Saturated fats would have no negative effects on blood sugar - unlike carbohydrates, especially in the form of sugar.

"Fat is your friend"
Aseem Malhotra of the PHC exclaims: "Eat fat to get slim. Do not be afraid of fat. Fat is your friend. "

Good for health?

NOF and PHC are blaming: The British health authorities are running the food industry. A low-fat industry threatens people's health.

Aseem Malhotra of the PHC even says the propaganda for low-fat products is perhaps the biggest flaw in modern medical history: "Our population has been subjected to a global experiment for almost 40 years that has gone dramatically wrong."

The fact is: more and more people are suffering from overweight and obesity. And, according to the WHO, the number of diabetic patients is rising massively.

Those who reduce fat and calories will not lose weight in the longer term, claims the PHC. Sugar should best be avoided completely.

Starch, sugar and alcohol promoted diabetes 2, but saturated fats counteracted the disease.

Fat is not just fat
However, the PHC warns against industrially produced vegetable oil and advises to use eggs, fish, nuts and seeds as fat suppliers. These also contained vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Avocados, olives and meat would also have these natural and healthy fats.

The omega-6 rich vegetable oils boosted various cancers, sunflower and corn oil also increase the risk of fatal heart disease.

Fat is healthy?
David Haslam, spokesman for the National Obesity Forum, said, "As a doctor who cares for patients every day, I quickly realized that guidelines that promote a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet are deeply deficient."

On the other hand, saturated fats not only did not promote heart disease, they even strengthened the heart. The US and UK guidelines wrongly did not distinguish between saturated and unsaturated fats in their standards of reducing fat in food.

New studies have shown that people who consumed a lot of cheese, whole milk and yogurt, saturated fats, the least overweight develop - the most overweight, however, suffered people who would eat little fat but many carbohydrates.

Saturated fats lowered the risk of diabetes 2. Researchers outside NOF and PHC are also certain: "Foods with high milk fat content reduce the risk of diabetes"

The PHC says education on low-fat products has catastrophic consequences, and despite lower-fat foods, the number of obese people in the UK is constantly increasing and authorities should revise their dietary guidelines.

Sport makes you slim?
The PHC also opposes the widespread idea that sport reduces weight. Their conclusion: whoever counts calories, sports and carbohydrates does not lose weight.

Criticism of the "fat fans"
Other scientists come to court with the PHC and the NOF.
British doctors criticize the theses of the "National Obesity Forum" as scientifically unsatisfactory: The "fat friends" would have picked only evidence that support their opinion and ignored a variety of studies with the opposite result.

Indeed, recent studies see a link between high-fat foods and cancer: eating too much greasy food, adolescent breast cancer risk increases later.

Low Fat made in Germany
The British guidelines also apply in Germany. For example, the German Society for Nutrition (DGE) recommends consuming "plenty of bread, cereal, pasta, potatoes and rice" and recommends "low-fat ingredients as low as possible." (Dr. Utz Anhalt)